[Appendix 4 – “Warning against venereal disease. All companies. It is notified for the information of troops that VENEREAL DISEASE is absolutely RAMPANT in the village of BOHAIN. THEREFORE regard all women as INFECTED and TAKE NO RISKS. FRENCH LETTERS are available FREE OF CHARGE at R.A.P. Have no connection without using one.”

“I feel that in many minor ways company and platoon commanders not quite giving the assistance they could to the higher authorities in achieving the ideal that is so necessary for us to display as conquering troops occupying an enemy country. I am therefore making a special appeal to all officers to do their utmost to correct some of the faults that have been noticed by the divisional commander, brigade commander and myself since the signing of the armistice, rendering our earlier methods of soldiering partly obsolete. Some of the most noticeable are:

Lack of uniformity in dress and turnout…

In some cases the lack of personal interest in the well-being of your men is still a distinct feature in many platoons…

(d) Men are still not told the reasons for the necessity of a high standard of discipline. It must be obvious to even most junior platoon commanders that we will lose our prestige in Germany unless our discipline is of a very high standard…”]